Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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ionable woods for canes.
GRAY hairs are not only honorable,
they cost 800 per ounce.
RHODE ISLAND is the only state in
the union whose legislature votes by
secret ballot.
AT Phoenix, Arizona, the ther-
mometer has been registering lit de-
grees, and at Needles it has registered
1872 in the shade.
MISS JENNIE RUsHToN, who resides
few miles north of Hyde, Col, has
killed over fifty rattlesnakes during
the present season.
THE law of imprisonment for debt
, In Illinois was not abolished by the
recent Legislature. A man may now
be imprisoned for six months.
THE governors Of % of the 38
States are Democrats and of 16 Re-
publicans. The Legislatures stand 19
Republican and 10 Democratic.
A CLUB of scientists and linguists
has been formed in San Francisco,
CAL, for the study of the Volapuk
language, the invention of German
priest named Schleyer.
UNITED STATES LABOR COMMISSION
Err CARROLL D. WRIGHT intends to
collect divorce statistics from the
records of every court in the United
| States for twenty years back.
AN estate Of over one million acres
was recently offered at public auction
in Norway. 1t is hardly surprising
that there was no serious offer for it
and the estate was withdrawn.
By careful experiments NJ. Bloch has
| determined that it takes 1.72 o. a
second longer to hear asound than to
see sight, and / 21 of second longer
to feel a touch than to see sight.
The San Diego (Cal.) Union claims
that that city is the healthiest in the
world, since q doctor, druggist and
| an undertaken have abandoned their
respective professions to engage in the
real estate business.
SOMEONE of g. statistical turn OF
| mind has been investigating whether
the study OF classics or that of mathe.
matics Is the more favorable to
longevity. The result is slightly in
favor of the study of the classics.
GEN. MEIGs has had the huge brick
pillars in the pension building at
Washington, plastered with mortar
made or marble dust, So that they
look like solid shafts of marble. The
pillars are six feet in diameter and
eighty feet high.
THE Hon. Primus Jones, when he
returned to his legislative duties in
Atlanta from Albany Monday, carried
with him thirty large watermelons,
averaging over sixty pounds each, to
treat his fellow-members.- Macon
(Ga.) Telegraph.
THE village of Brownsville, in this
state, has got S., 900 in its treasury
received for two saloon licenses, and
is absolutely puzzled to know what
to do with so much filthy lucre. This
Winona (Minn. Republican.
GRAssHOPPERs are devastating the
fields of Algeria in q terrible manner.
An attempt to destroy the eggs proved
useless. In one district fifty thou
sand gallons have been collected and
burned. This represents the destruc-
ton of z, $50, 100000 insects.
JONATHAN Fl. GREEN, who forty
years ago was widely known as the
reformed Gambler" and who has
written four books on the evils of
gambling, including "confession," is
still living in Philadelphia, and has
lust celebrated his 18th birthday. He
is still hearty, and able to work stead
lily at his trade as painter.
The Troy IN. Y Times complains
Of the treatment of the trees in the
streets of that city. Sidewalk vendors
nail signs against the trees, storekeep-
ers barricade them with boxes and
bill boards, and there seems to be g.
woeful lack of appreciation of the
noble natural ornaments, whose num-
Der is constantly growing less.
Col. W. A. STONE, United States
district attorney at Pittsburg, Pa,
IS said to have received a fee of So
900 from the state for trying the case
for the state against AN Allegheny pa
per which had sued to recover So, 400
for publishing the mercantile ap-
praisement list OF 1886. 1t is claimed
that Stone only worked two days on
the case.
AN elderly maiden lady living near
Sidcup wrote to the lord chamberlain,
saying that she believed every class OF
the queens subjects would be repre-
sented at Westminster Abbey except
one, "the old maids" and she asked
for two tickets and thehonor of repre-
senting the cold maids" wishing to
have q lady friend accompany her.
She got ticket for herself
Miss ALICE 3. FREEMAN will resign
the presidency OF Wellesley College and
become the wife of Prof. George Palm
er of Harry ard University. the lady
was disposed to keep the position, but
Prof. Palmer would, not consent to
the organization of adomestic faculty
OF which the party of the second part
was to be president. He held that so
long as he was not president the fami.
ly could get along without one, and he
had his way Troy Press.
HENRY f. VERHUyEN, who is now
living in Germany, used to be an ex-
change broker in this city. One even
ing he was thrown on a pile OF snow